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Ready4Change Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-01-06 12:22 AM
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1. Hmmm.
"Wealth is not a form of energy, and instead is created by every improvement in process, technology, and design. Value is not measured in joules, nor by how much labor went into a product or service."

I think I'd say that somethings value is measured by the effort one is willing to expend to get it. A diamond may be beautiful, but a starving person has no interest in it. Tell that starving person that a rich person will pay enough money for that diamond to feed his family for a year, and that starving person will expend a lot of effort to obtain it.

So, wealth is not a form of energy in itself. It is instead an indication of potential energy.
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